Re: Metaphors, then Use Cases

Subject: Re: Metaphors, then Use Cases
From: Mark Wilden <Mark -at- MWILDEN -dot- COM>
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1997 13:30:31 -0700

> From: Kathleen Padova <KPadova -at- MILLSTAR -dot- COM>
>
> The new buzzword around the office is "Use Case Scenarios". (The person
> who started using it is the same person who uses "Heirarchical
> decomposition" for table of contents.)
>
> I haven't noticed any difference between the Examples & Sample Searches
> I used to write and the Use Case Scenarios I now write.

This is a software design term that's become prominent recently, due to the
writings of Ivor Jacobsen. So no, it's nothing new in technical writing,
but it's a useful technique in design.

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